Premier League champion in May, the Portuguese boss has now been relieved of his duties after a horrible run of form which has left The Blues languishing 16th in the table. Nobody could have predicted the club's woes back at the beginning of the season.

However, now we think about it, a select few might have forseen the whole thing a little more recently - namely the pranksters at Cheeky Sport and Diego Costa . In a naughty stunt back in November, the cheeky boys drew up a P45 for The (Not So) Special One; that's the official document an employer has to give to an employee when giving them the boot.

Clearly, getting Roman Abramovich to sign it seemed a tad tricky at the time. However, posing as autograph hunters, they did manage to get Costa to "authorise" the document.

Though it was clearly completely accidental on Diego's part, it has ended up looking rather prescient.